Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-17
Wonderful neutrality-suspicious..
Religio- Philosophical Journal.

NOuucTIul
Relgio-Philosophica Journal.
In the wonderful progress of modern
spiritualism among all classes of people
in this and other lands, there have been
thousands of cases OF very wonderful, and
even miraculous personal experience that
have never been made public. Of such is
the following sketch:
It was the writer's good fortune to be
on intimate, social and friendly terms
with the Rev. Mr.. B. and his interesting
family, some thirty years ago aor
SO. Mr.. B. was we'll educated gentle
man and a minister of high standing in
Southern Ohio.
His family consisted of his wife and
two daughters IA and Is years of age re-
spectively. Both of these daughters had
become developed as most excellent me-
diums. The youngest was, / think the
best medium, with one exception, that
ever saw. And now, after over thirty
years experience, during the whole of
which time, being medium myself, and
having had a large and varied experience
with all classes of mediums myself, 1
look back with surprising interest and
pleasure to the time of the wonderful
display of spirit power in the quiet and
cultivated home of that Christian min
lister.
Both daughters we're clairvoyant, truce,
rapping and writing mediums. In ad-
dition to this, the youngest, Martha, was
a persOnating and spirit light me-
dunn.
One morning she, her mother and my
self were sitting by ourselves when she
went under deep influence and took a
slate, and with her left hand Cat such
times she wrote equally well wish either
handy, her eyes closed and her head
thrown back and turned aside, she wrote
quite rapidly in a circle, beginning at the
top of the slate and finishing at the
center, without moving the slate and with
no motion of herself except the hand,
she pushed the slate across the table to
me, and had to keep turning it around
to enable me to read. I found the writ
ing very well executed, the letters all per-
pendicular to point to the center, and
addressed to me. But the name Kutrine
Marie Antonio, was a strange one, and
pondered on who is could be, until some
thing else was written Or said, when I re-
membered that my maternal grandmother
was of French-German descent, and that
her maiden name, as I understood it when
a boy, was Mary Catherine Antonio.
She passed away when I was a mere
boy, and was not in my thoughts at all
when this was given; neither had I ever
mentioned anything about my grand
mother to any one in the town. The mes
sage to me was excellent and character
istic of her. She often came after this.
One night she came to the circle, and
Martha, her mother, sister and myself
Io
tations Of a quite remarkable character
in the way of PRESERVATION, clairvoyance,
spirit lights, ETC., had been given, she
spoke through Martha, and said she would
go home with me that night and give me
some manifestations.
A short time before this had myself
become developed as a medium, but did
not know that any of my spirit friends
could manifest to me when alone. was,
tn erefore, very agreeably surprised, that
very clear and distinct raps came on my
hat and umbrella when on my way home
alone.
On reaching my room at the hotel,
lit my candle and sat at the small table,
as usual with me at night, to see what
would come. AS sat in my chair my
hands were taken off the table and cross
lifted from the floor and placed on the
rung of the chair. / then felt trem-
ling motion in my chair and an unseen
power lifted it about six inches from the
floor, as near as 1 could Judge, when a
sense of fear came over me that I might
fall, whereupon my chair was lowered
very gently to the floor. I then put out
my light and went to bed. AS soon as
no t1yh nfn mt CHI IF
raps began in every part of the room.
Never have heard sucn shower of raps
and never did before.
After getting into bed the raps con-
tinued a few moments on the bedstead,
pillows, on my face and all about the
room. Suddenly they stopped and all
was perfectly still for a minute when a
tremor was felt in the bed and the foot
began slowly to rise until it had gone up
foot or more, and stopped. Then the
head of the bed went up till it came on
level with the foot, and it was floating in
the air! 1 began again to be afraid of
falling, and it was carefully lowered to
the floor. And now flashed out in the
room beautiful spirit lights, several at a
time. Not so many nor so remarkable
as I saw many years afterward at the
wonderful Tiffin circle. These lights
ceased directly, and then suddenly a
brilliant light appeared on the wall and
remained a minute Or SO. 1t was ten or
twelve inches in diameter and shown
with indescribable beauty and with a
brilliancy of exceeding intensity. The
changing colors that continually flashed
from this respledent light were of sur
passing beauty.
While this wonderful display of divine
power and goodness was going On, most
calm and happy influence was upon me
and to this day I recall the experiences
of that wonderful night with deep sense
of pleasure, and thankfulness TO my heav-
emily Father, that words can but poorly ex-
press.
But to return to my friends, the minis
ter and his family. One day Martha and
her mother we're sitting with me, and
Martha went into deep trance, and as
Stunning a very tranquil and gentle man-
ner. she said just above whisper:
'Mr. Allen, the chief priest is here"
By this expression, unusual with her,
inferred that she meant the Chief Priest